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Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During Facebook Outage

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Facebook outage period turn profitable for Telegram, within 24 hours the instant messaging app gained more than 3 million new users.

Telegram is a free instant messaging app like WhatsApp, well-known for its encryption, privacy, and self-destructive private messages. With Telegram, you can access your messages across multiple devices.

With Telegram, all your messages, media, etc are encrypted using a combination of 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange. Telegram runs on user donation’s and the company claims it will never sell ads or monetize users’ data.

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You will get the maximum privacy with Telegram Secret Chats, that programmed to get self-destruct automatically from both participating devices.

Telegram Founder and CEO Pavel Durov, confirmed this Thursday that more 3 million new users have joined Telegram during the historic Facebook outage.

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Facebook Outage

Billions of user’s affected as the social media service Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook experienced a historic outage. Officials from Facebook claimed that Facebook down due to the internal glitch and it is also affected other Facebook-owned platforms Instagram and WhatsApp.

Facebook said that ” We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

The outage affected users in the US, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. The outage also affected the Facebook Owned virtual reality company Oculus.

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Gurubaran
Gurubaran
Gurubaran is a co-founder of Cyber Security News and GBHackers On Security. He has 10+ years of experience as a Security Consultant, Editor, and Analyst in cybersecurity, technology, and communications.

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